Les Soirées de poche

Bon Iver was there, along with Damien Rice, Aaron and Bryce Dessner, My Brightest Diamond, Mouse on Mars, Kings of Convenience, The Staves, two Alt-J members, and so many others. More than a hundred musicians gathered in Berlin for the most amazing, crazy, free spirit festival you can imagine. We were there too, and we brought back some great videos.

When Pitchfork launched their first European festival in Paris, in october 2011, they invited La Blogotheque to film a series of Take-Away Shows with the bands playing. Here are those movies. In association with Spotify Live.

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Basia Bulat

Sometimes a song you haven’t heard in a while comes back to take you by surprise. Near the end of Basia Bulat’s new album Heart of my own
is the song “The Shore”. Listening, I was reminded that I had already heard it.

It was about two years ago that Nate Chan filmed Basia in San Francisco. Two songs from her latest album and a third, completely new, that didn’t have a title yet. The song and the video were beautiful, intimate, with the surprise addition of a choir hidden in a pool of light. We wanted to publish it right away, but Basia and her label didn’t want to. Too soon, they said.

So the video stayed on a hard drive for months, before coming back to us without warning. Basia Bulat is now willing to let us post it, so we’ve dusted it off and put it up for you.